vincent mouton wrote: > Hi, > building a site using XSLT to output XHTML to the browser (teh XSLT > processing is done server-side, using Cocoon), we recently added a DOCTYPE > definition to our page and suddenly saw almost all elements of the page > being distributed around the layout, as if the cellpadding of all tables was > set to 20. > > When we removed the DOCTYPE, the problem dissapeared again. > > As it seems, the spacing issue only happens on tables, wether they have > nested tables, text or images in their cells. All paragraph tags and similar > block elements keep their exact spacing. > > This behaviour only appears in Mozilla and Netscape. IE does the layouting > perfectly. > > Is this a Mozilla issue? How to prevent this additional whitespace to > appear, without of course loosing the DOCTYPE definition? Or is this a > layout issue, where Mozilla layouts tables in a different way than IE does > (or does IE layout tables in a different way as Mozilla does).
known issue: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22274
